Tap into the scalability of machines to automate the data marketplace for your organization.

Rich marketplaces for data re-use

For many years data production was a one-way pipeline.

Source systems dumped data exhaust, its messy, raw structure accessible only by an information technology professional. Secure access, specialized scripts, and hours of wrangling were necessary to build a meaningful data structure. And that structure became the single source of truth. Because it was too hard to iterate.

Today that rough, one-lane-highway has been replaced by schema-on-read, self-service applications and a rich world of iterative data preparation.

Data Catalog - the Heart of a Marketplace

Data Catalogs Democratize Data Access

A modern data catalog makes data – and information about this data – accessible to all.

Data catalogs demystify the production, reuse and sharing of data sets. Just as shoppers browse through vendor stalls in a marketplace to find goods – data scientists, analysts, and other data consumers can browse through a data catalog to find data assets.

Aggregate All Data Knowledge

When the data warehouse was king, registering data for reuse was straightforward. A data model held the keys to the kingdom. But today, even creating a simple inventory of your data is a big data challenge.

Leverage what is known and automate your inventory. Alation connects directly to databases, Hadoop files and business intelligence tools to automate the registration of your data. The inventory is then enriched with behavioral analysis using the query logs from your organization. This automated approach creates a rich data catalog that meets self-service IT and business needs.

Add CrowdSourced Insight

Alation analyzes the relationships between your data, your data assets and the people accessing them. This can become a rich repository of knowledge for maintaining data models, schemas, and assets for the organization.

Open APIs for Data Management

And we make it easy to leverage this single point of reference not only for human data interaction but also for system-to-system communications. Alation ships with a set of open APIs for connecting to your data transformation and management ecosystem.

Alation helps Data Creators

Package Data with Context

Ensure that your data products are always presented in the context of data history, lineage & fit for analysis

Encourage Data Asset Reuse

Lower the barrier to data consumers for self-serving the highest quality data assets in your organization

Host a Data Marketplace

Automate the process of cataloging, evaluating & updating data assets

How does Alation work in Action?

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